Former NASA Administrator Bill Nelson speaking on a panel March 29 during the "Earth to Space" festival at the Kennedy Center. Credit: SpaceNews/Jeff Foust WASHINGTON — Former NASA Administrator ...

Bill Nelson, the NASA administrator under President Joe Biden, couched the superpower competition as a new space race, arguing a U.S. presence on the moon was essential to national security and ...

“We’re going to learn how to use the resources on the moon in order to be able to build things in the future as we go,” former NASA administrator Bill Nelson said during a 2022 news conference.

If confirmed, Isaacman would succeed Bill Nelson, former President Joe Biden’s pick for NASA administrator and a former astronaut and Democratic U.S. senator from Florida. In a December post on ...